"Physics: Its Marvels And Mysteries" by Daniel Q. Posin, illustrated by Bill H. Armstrong, published by Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, 1961. First Edition.

Glossy illustrated hard boards [a little edge wear, original price of 59c on the front board, 6" x 8.1/2"; illustrated endpapers, 60 pages, very good, near fine condition.

Daniel Q. Posin (1909-2003) was an American physicist. He was born in 1909 in Russian Turkestan, close to the Caspian Sea. When he was six years old his family fled the Russian revolution, and in a journey that took three years he made it to Mongolia and finally to the United States, the final leg of the journey on a cattle boat to San Francisco. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and earning a Ph.D. in physics.

Posin was awarded six Emmy awards for his for educational programming in television. Also, in 1972 he was given the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize six times.

His book I Have Been to the Village includes a quote by Einstein, "Dr. Dan Q. Posin's book bears eloquent witness to the sincere and self-sacrificing way in which the ablest among the scientists try to fulfill their duty toward the community." Posin authored over 30 books.

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